Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

11.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

12.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

13.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

20.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

21.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

38.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every wall is a door.